Angela Merkel: A Chancellorship Forged in Crisis

The idea for this book was hatched during a European Union summit inBrussels, but it was in a bar adjacent to the former U.S. Embassy buildingin Berlin that the opportunity to write it fi rst became reality. Afternearly three years of turmoil, the story of Angela Merkel and Europe’sdebt crisis had reached critical mass. As our colleague John Fraher, one ofBloomberg’s managing editors, put it: The planets had aligned and nowwas the time to grasp our chance. Within two days we were at our writingdesks, suddenly realizing the magnitude of the project.